RE: cms list mission

Re: posts like this from Mike

It's easy to interpret Mike's request as a thinly veiled PR attempt. In fact any mention of any product or service could be interpreted as PR. That is a common viral marketing strategy. 

However, critical assessments of products/services by people who are knowledgeable are indeed interesting to me. I'm interested in the criteria that people use to assess things, I am often alerted to issues that I haven't thought of before (assuming some diversity amongst participants), etc.   Critical reviews drive other highly productive dls that I belong to and often provide a jump-off point for more interesting discussion.

Re: all the lists -

I think that the growing suites of discussion lists resembles an over-normalized database. I really don't think that content management as a topic has clear divisions between content, development, design etc and I don't think it's necessary or useful to try to separate it out that way. The gray murky waters are what provide such a rich discussion basis amongst a diverse population.  So, in fact, I think that by having so many disparate lists we're missing out on interesting discussions where people who play different roles may be surprised by alternate perspectives.

I also have been unable to get the archives from the old cms-list - does anyone have those available for download anywhere? I know the last several months are at archivist.incutio but there's no easy way to download them. If anyone has them, please email me offlist.

-chris